Verstappen eyes rare hat-trick
MEXICAN F1: FERRARI HAS NOT WON A RACE IN MEXICO CITY IN ALMOST THREE DECADES
Meanwhile Toro Rosso will in 2020 run under the name Scuderia Alpha Tauri.
After a 21-year hiatus when the Mexican Grand Prix was dropped from the F1 calendar, the race returned to the Hermann Tilke revamped Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez circuit in Mexico City and has been the province of just two teams since then.
Mercedes and Nico Rosberg won in 2015 and then Mercedes again in 2016, this time with Lewis Hamilton on the top step.
In 2017 and 2018, the Red Bull of Max Verstappen claimed all the glory and it is not impossible that he may just make it a hat trick this Sunday.
The last success for Ferrari at this circuit was the win for Alain Prost back in 1990.
Perhaps this will change on
Sunday, but with the continuing saga of Maranello mishaps it has to be an outside chance, particularly with Red Bull and Mercedes on form.
I may have to eat my words if the Ferrari strategy allows drivers to do what they are there for – to race without team orders.
A straightforward fight be
I certainly do not envy those men behind the microphones in 2020.
tween Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel could result in a thrilling event.
Now, here is one for the book. Did you know that Alpha Tauri is a red giant star some 65 light years away from the sun in the constellation of Taurus and rates as the 14th brightest visible star?
It also happens to be the brand name of a clothing company established in 2016 and is set to become the name of an F1 team. The junior Red Bull Team, Toro Rosso, will, from the start of the 2020 season, run under the name Scuderia Alpha Tauri.
Approved by all the teams that make up the F1 Commission and the FIA recently, the nightmare for the television commentators begins.
The name used for the cars driven by Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi is an Alfa and that driven by Pierre Gasly and Daniil Kvyat is now an Alpha.
Suddenly Romeo and Tauri become significant, or perhaps it will become Alfa with an F and Alpha with a P.
I certainly do not envy those men behind the microphones in 2020.